All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing · Maryland

Appleton South

Elkton, MD · ~136 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Appleton South runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Appleton South: 1.9 TCR = 59% of All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Appleton South safety composite

Appleton South scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Appleton South held a steady TCR band

Appleton South's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.9 in 2019 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.9 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326121 · Elkton, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 59% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK P75
  • PHOTO Cleanroom Film & Bag…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cleanroom Film & Bags, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Appleton South in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Appleton South averages 1.9 TCR (59% of the All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Appleton South TCR series: 2019=1.9 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Appleton South falls in its industry

202 All Other Plastics Product Man establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Appleton South (136 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 3.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Appleton South
Appleton South (136 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Appleton South has more employees than the All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 1.6 0.8 1 1 0
2023 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.7 1.9 3 1 0
2021 2.7 1.8 3 0 0
2020 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 1.9 1.9 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326121 · MD · Elkton

202 All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 76 employers in Elkton, MD · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Cleanroom Film & Bags, Inc 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Porex Porous Technologies Richmond 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parkway Products Cobb Georgia 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Athol 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nichols Contracting Inc 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worcester Eisenbrandt 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metro Test & Balance, Inc. 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE MAIN GCC- E. Monument Street 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Union Hospital of Cecil County 1,231 FTE
CITY-NEAR TERUMO MEDICAL CORPORATION 835 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton 630 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGDS-MD50 597 FTE
NAT-TCR Setina Manufacturing Rixie Rd 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bion Enterprises, Ltd. (DBA - Aesku Bion) 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Al's Auto Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Therm-Con 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unity Electric LLC. 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farm and Fleet of Madison 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prime Electrical Services Inc. 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forest Hills Health & Rehabilitation Center 136 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.